Aden Young

Aden Young Headshot

Actor

Birth Date: November 30, 1971

Age: 52 years old

Birth Place: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Handsome Australian actor Aden Young was identified as a hot property early in his career, but shied away from roles that would earn him greater fame, instead opting for parts in smaller Australian films. Brown-haired, with pleasant features and a suggestive mischief in his eyes, Young's charisma and charm shone through his portrayals and gave even the nastiest of characters a compelling dimensionality, rendering them almost likable. The young actor made his big screen debut co-starring as a 17th Century French carpenter boy working as translator and guide to a Jesuit missionary priest in the Canadian wilderness in Bruce Beresford's "Black Robe" (1991). This debut performance exhibited his intuitive approach to acting, and garnered notice and acclaim. The following year, he was featured in the Australian production "Over the Hill," a movie chronicling the cross-country travels of a freewheeling grandmother.

Young's next project was the more mainstream action thriller "Sniper" (1993), co-starring alongside American actors Tom Berenger, Billy Zane and J T Walsh. That same year he amassed credits with featured roles in the Australian films "Love in Limbo," "Broken Highway," and "Shotgun Wedding," which gained him experience and domestic recognition if not worldwide fame. In 1994, he starred in the odd drama "Exile," playing a man sentenced to an isolated island after being convicted of stealing sheep. There he is joined by a young woman with whom he falls in love and awaits a child, only to be found out and persecuted. That same year the love quadrangle drama "Metal Skin" was released to raves in Australia (although its US release was held up until 1999).1996 saw the actor turn in several notable performances, including his acclaimed turn in "River Street" as an ambitious and somewhat ruthless real estate executive. Young took a supporting role in the touching comedy "Cosi," playing the spiteful friend of an aspiring theater director ("Metal Skin" co-star Ben Mendelsohn) hired to steer a production of Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutte" in a mental hospital. Young's role was relatively small but his appealing portrayal of a two-faced pal was among the most memorable in the film. He then took the lead in "Hotel de Love," starring as Rick Dunne, the jaded manager of an especially tacky Australian honeymoon hotel who becomes reacquainted with a former lover (Saffron Burrows). Young went on to co-star in the period drama "Cousin Bette" (1998), a strangely comedic adaptation of Honore de Balzac's classic novel. As Wencenslas, the down-on-his-luck sculptor rescued by Jessica Lange's spinster title character, he serves at the catalyst of Bette's dramatic rage. After being redeemed by Bette (who fancies that he should become her lover), Wencenslas becomes quite the playboy, falling in love with the young and privileged Hortense Hulot (a member of Bette's own family), and taking up with courtesan Jenny, Bette's only friend. That same year he again tackled an adaptation of a literary classic, this time as star of "Under Heaven," a modern reworking of Henry James' "The Wings of the Dove." Co-starring Joely Richardson and Molly Parker, the film was a capable retelling, served well by Young's consistently multidimensional portrayals of men of ambiguous morality.

Credits

Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent

Actor
Detective Sergeant Henry Graff
Show
2024

The King Tide

Actor
Beau
Movie
2023

Reckoning

Actor
Mike Serrato
Show
2020

Elsewhere

Actor
Bruno
Movie
2019

Angelique's Isle

Actor
Cyrus Mendenhall
Movie
2018

The DisappearanceStream

Actor
Luke Sullivan
Series
2017

Don't Tell

Actor
Stephen Roche
Movie
2017

The Unseen

Actor
Bob Langmore
Movie
2016

The Principal

Actor
Show
2015

Rectify: Extras

Actor
Show
2015

The Code

Actor
Randall Keats
Show
2014

I, FrankensteinStream

Actor
Victor Frankenstein
Movie
2014
5%

RectifyStream

Actor
Daniel Holden
Series
2013
95%

Frontera

Actor
Sheriff Randall Hunt
Movie
2013

Final Recipe

Actor
Sean
Movie
2013

Katie

Guest
Talk
2012

Killer EliteStream

Actor
Meier
Movie
2011
28%

The Tree

Actor
Peter O'Neil
Movie
2010

After the Deluge

Actor
Show
2009

Dark Frontier

Actor
Nat
Movie
2009

The Starter Wife

Actor
Jorge Stewart
Show
2007

Human Touch

Actor
Movie
2006

The Bet

Actor
Movie
2006

The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course

Actor
Ron Buckwhiler
Movie
2002

The War Bride

Actor
Charlie
Movie
2001

Identidad Perdida

Actor
Movie
2001

Serenades

Actor
Johann
Movie
2001

Under Heaven

Actor
Buck
Movie
1998

Cousin Bette

Actor
Count Wenceslas Steinbach
Movie
1998

Cosi

Actor
Nick
Movie
1996

River Street

Actor
Ben Egan
Movie
1996

Hotel de Love

Actor
Rick Dunne
Movie
1996

The Crocodile HunterStream

Self
Reality
1995

The Exile

Actor
Movie
1994

Exile

Actor
Peter Costello
Movie
1994

Metal Skin

Actor
Joe
Movie
1994

Sniper

Actor
Doug Papich
Movie
1993

Broken Highway

Actor
Angel
Movie
1993

Shotgun Wedding

Actor
Jimmy Becker
Movie
1993

Love in Limbo

Actor
Barry McJannet
Movie
1993

Over the Hill

Actor
Nick
Movie
1992

El Último Misionero

Actor
Movie
1991

Black Robe

Actor
Daniel
Movie
1991

News aboutAden Young